Directed by Luis Bunuel
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
An ascetic lives on top of a column in the middle of the desert. Various people stop by to visit: peasants to be healed (he gives one of them hands), his mother (who lives nearby in a shack), elders of the church (one of whom he chastises for lack of a beard) and Satan himself (who tempts him in various disguises). Satan makes his final attempt to dissuade Simon from his pious life by whisking him away by jet plane to a nightclub full of teenagers dancing to rock and roll music. Unfortunately, the film ends right there. As a result, it feels more like half a movie, an underdeveloped tease that leads to the one-joke ending and then has nowhere to go. Apparently the funding was pulled by the producers leaving Bunuel with no money to complete his vision.
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